Thread by @textfiles

A little more on Google's Rep with short-term-ness of their works.

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1356329763498041344

Google's a long way away from when it was making a bunch of truly revolutionary stuff and dropping it every month, releasing a new product that was so light-years oddly different than others in that space you just had to sit back and admire it. Gone.

Now, it's basically living the same life as early-1990s Microsoft - a hell of a lot of fiefdoms, a lot of suits, a lot of alphas building mini-empires by shifting people or projects under different brandings to show they're GENI US

I had an epiphany years ago when an ex-google friend saw me mention something Google dying, and he said "Ah, the person who started that project to get promoted, got promoted".

Once you stop looking for clear product lines and describe it all as peacock plumage, it makes sense.

The bloodbath of Youtube Music destroying Google Music and Google Play in the ring, so that it could dominate as the Empire Within an Empire is an easy one, but this is happening all the time. All built on advertising money and selling privacy by the ice chunk.

So, Stadia doing this thing that makes the whole structure shake like an axe to the corner doesn't mean it'll be dead this year, hence the 3 year estimate of STADIACOUNTDOWN. There's LOTS of rotting left to do. It takes WORK to rot this thing out.

You've got to have alphas, both management and programmers, shift to other things or start/lead other companies. You've got to have the branding shift over so it's GOOGLE PLAYSTADIA or something. (Maybe with a Sony lawsuit in there). STADIA MAX/PRO, who knows what.

THEN over time, Stadia will take more and more of a back seat. Less titles showing up, or maybe a little, tiny adult-swim corner that will have rabid fans loving it, but at google, and this is canon: 50,000 rabid fans as a community? Blast that shit into SPACE.

Anyway, enjoy Stadia while it lasts. The countdown continues. Google is a garbage fire.